Two Times in A Row! Google Again?
I copied this post from Matt Nutts, it is a hosted WordPress blog but this article is concerning the blogger’s blog he owns. Yesterday, Google are putting ban and restriction to some of bloggers who own PayPerPost account. Unfortunately I was included. This time, it is becoming big matters, it concerns all blogger who use Blogger.com, because what Google had done is just alienating blogger inside their own blog.
Whats Changed?
Before, another blogger from anywhere could post a comment on a blogger/blogspot post and get a link back by adding their blog address and name, this in turn created a backlink via the name field which led back to the bloggers blog.
Google has changed this and made it almost impossible to get a backlink to your blog unless you add your blog address within the actual comment. What they want to do now is sign up for a Google account which allows you to add your user name to the comment, add a nickname or leave an anonymous comment.
What Does This Mean To A Blogger?
For one thing you wont receive a backlink to your blog. To make matters worse it could altere a lot of things.
Technorati - After 6 months all back links from blogger/blogspot blogs will disappear which could alter things on technorati drastically.
Advertising - A lot of advertising networks use the number of back links as an indicator to how popular a site is, what happens when all the links disappear.
Statistics - Loads of people use the back links for statistics and to measure their blogs growth, doing what Google have done will make this very hard to measure where traffic is coming from if its from another blogger/blogspot blog.
Finding New Blogs - In the long run it will stop bloggers finding each other, I follow anyy comments left on my blogs back to the blog that left them by clicking on the name field of the comment. I sometimes end up subscribing or becoming a fan of the blog I visit. What Google have done has basically stopped communication between bloggers and stopped the core feature of blogging which is getting the word out and getting noticed by spreading news around.
Why?
Who knows, it will create more accounts for Google thats for sure. It also means you have to have a Google account to get anything worth while out of blogging on blogger.
What I propose is everyone posts about this, copy this post if you have to, make badges. I can make a list of links below, let Google know what you feel about it. Any comments here will be added to the post with a link back to your blog.
Digg everything you see about it
Stumble, Reddit E.T.C everything
But if we have Blogger account, you can still find our blogs? I don’t understand what is happening here. Sorry.
Serena
ChatnChill
The think is like this:
If you have a Blogger account, you can still backlink to your user name.
If you aren’t, you can’t backlink to your blog unless you wrote down your link on the comment you posted.
That’s the deal, you must have a Blogger account in order for you to be linked back to your post.
I see you already developed a habit of writing your blog link at the end of your comment, that’s good.
However, not all people had developed that good habit of yours.
Regards,
Firewalker.
Thanks for this info.though I have also posted this knocking news earlier,yet I will post it again.I got hard approval from payperpost yesterday and I am now in confusions what to do.If google lets me down then my blog popularity will go in vain.Anyway your visit and comments in my blog would be appreciated.Please visit at http://kasakk.blogspot.com